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Place holder talk for WMHack19 mentoring program Soon we will create a detailed plan for Friday for matching participants with projects, sessions and skills. For now you can follow our progress here on this etherpad: https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/WMHack19_Mentoring If you would like to be involved in further developing this plan we welcome your help, please comment on this task. General Hackathon day 1 Overview: All participants attend the hackathon opening which will include a newcomer / mentoring briefing. Afterwards: Rm 1 - technical overview NEXT mentor matching NEXT nothing Rm 2 - poster creation NEXT skill share overview NEXT project matching During the first session: newcomers will join the technical overview session, project leaders will create their posters, and mentors will add themselves to the mentoring page **Changes from previous years: - Separating mentor matching and project matching - Physical skill share board incorporated into newcomer program - Shorter "open mic" in opening, see the flow chart for more details - We will have a dedicated "helpers" telegram group where folks from the technical help desk ( @debt ) and mentors will all join together to enable quick responses and help for newcomers / mentor related needs.

Place holder talk for WMHack19 mentoring program Soon we will create a detailed plan for Friday for matching participants with projects, sessions and skills. For now you can follow our progress here on this etherpad: https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/WMHack19_Mentoring If you would like to be involved in further developing this plan we welcome your help, please comment on this task. General Hackathon day 1 Overview: All participants attend the hackathon opening which will include a newcomer / mentoring briefing. Afterwards: Rm 1 - technical overview NEXT mentor matching NEXT nothing Rm 2 - poster creation NEXT skill share overview NEXT project matching During the first session: newcomers will join the technical overview session, project leaders will create their posters, and mentors will add themselves to the mentoring page **Changes from previous years** - Separating mentor matching and project matching - Physical skill share board incorporated into newcomer program - Shorter "open mic" in opening, see the flow chart for more details - We will have a dedicated "helpers" telegram group where folks from the technical help desk ( @debt ) and mentors will all join together to enable quick responses and help for newcomers / mentor related needs.

Place holder talk for WMHack19 mentoring program Soon we will create a detailed plan for Friday for matching participants with projects, sessions and skills. For now you can follow our progress here on this etherpad: https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/WMHack19_Mentoring If you would like to be involved in further developing this plan we welcome your help, please comment on this task. General Hackathon day 1 Overview: All participants attend the hackathon opening which will include a newcomer / mentoring briefing. Afterwards: Rm 1 - technical overview NEXT mentor matching NEXT nothing Rm 2 - poster creation NEXT skill share overview NEXT project matching During the first session: newcomers will join the technical overview session, project leaders will create their posters, and mentors will add themselves to the mentoring page **Changes from previous years: ** - Separating mentor matching and project matching - Physical skill share board incorporated into newcomer program - Shorter "open mic" in opening, see the flow chart for more details - We will have a dedicated "helpers" telegram group where folks from the technical help desk ( @debt ) and mentors will all join together to enable quick responses and help for newcomers / mentor related needs.